Beach or lounge chair



July 3, 1956 J. BERGER BEACH OR LOUNGE CHAIR Filed May 5, 1955 INVENTOR. Jo cob Berger FIG.6

ATTORNEY United States Patent BEACH 0R LOUNGE CHAIR Jacob Berger, New York, N. Y., assignor of one-half to Louis Gottfried, New York, N. Y.

Application May 5, 1955, Serial No. 506,128

1 Claim. (Cl. 135-5) The present invention relates to a beach or lounge chair, and in particular to such chair having a canopy attached thereto.

It has been proposed before to provide canopies on beach or lounge chairs which were equipped with means for adjusting the canopy to a plurality of positions relative to the chair. Among others, two disks having radially disposed corrugations have been used for this purpose and the different positions of the canopy have been achieved by rotation of one disk relative to the other, whereby one disk was secured permanently to the rear frame of the chair, while the other disk was permanently secured to the canopy frame. It has been experienced, however, that the mentioned disk arrangement as well as other known means for adjustment of the position of the canopy were not satisfactory, because after using these known means for a comparatively short time, they did not function properly and permitted an involuntary change of position of the canopy upon exerting comparatively light wind pressure.

It is, therefore, one object of the present invention to provide adjusting means for a beach or lounge chair which avoids all drawbacks of the known adjusting means and still permits easy and fast adjustment of the canopy.

It is another object of the present invention to provide adjustment means for a canopy on a beach or lounge chair which comprises two disks, one of the disks being permanently secured to the rear frame of the chair and the other disk being permanently secured to the canopy frame, both said disks engaging each other, and one of said disks carrying a spring biased bolt which enters one of a plurality of borings disposed in the other adjacent disk, so that the spring maintains the bolt in a predetermined hole of the other disk, and, thereby, prevents any involuntary change of the position of the canopy.

With these and other objects in view, which will become apparent in the following detailed description, the present invention will be clearly understood in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a beach chain having a canopy attached thereto;

Fig. 2 is a perspective side view of the adjustment device;

Fig. 3 is a section through the adjustment device for the canopy;

Fig. 4 is an end view of one disk attached to the canopy frame;

Fig. 5 is an end view of the other disk attached to the rear frame of the chair; and

Fig. 6 is a section of the spring biased retaining bolt.

Referring now to the drawing and in particular to Fig. 1, the chair comprises a seat portion 1 and a back portion 2.

The back portion consists of a conventional U-shaped frame, which includes upwardly extending leg portions 3, which are connected by a base portion 4.

The frame for the canopy 5 comprises likewise substantially a U-shaped member, the base 6 of which is disposed at its front while the leg members 7 extend 2,752,929 Patented July 3, 1956 quite apparent that the end portions 8 may also be disposed intermediate the leg portions 3, in which case the latter are spaced apart at a distance which is slightly larger than the entire distance between the end portions 8.

Referring now to Figs. 2 to 5, the adjustment device comprises two disks 9 and 10, which disks are equipped with central borings 11 and 12 and corresponding borings 13 and 14 are provided in the leg portions 3 and the end portions 8, respectively. A screw bolt 15, a rivet or any other suitable means extends through the boring 13, borings 11 and 12, and the boring 14 of the leg portion 3, of the disks 9 and 10, and of the end portions 8, respectively, which screw bolt receives a nut 16 to retain the disks 9 and 10 between the leg portion 3 and the end portion 8 in such manner that the end portion 8 is rotatable relative to the leg portion 3 upon the axis of the bolt 15 as turning axis.

The disk 9 is equipped with a projection 17 which has a boring 18 and aligned with the boring 181 is a boring 19 in the leg portion 3. A screw bolt 20, carrying a nut 21, a rivet or any other suitable means, is inserted in the boring 19 of the leg portion 3 and the boring 18 of the projection 17 in order to secure permanently the disk 9 to the leg portion 3.

The disk 10 is equipped with a similar projection 22 which has a boring 23 which is aligned with a boring 24 provided in the end portion 8 of the canopy frame. A screw bolt 25 or the like having a nut 26 extends through the borings 23 and 24 and secures the disk 10 permanently to the end portion 8. By this arrangement, the end portion 8 is rotatable together with the disk 10 relative to the leg portion 3 to which the disk 9 is secured, whereby the engaging faces of the disks 9 and 10 slide upon each other.

The disk 9 is further equipped with a plurality of borings 27 which are disposed along the same circle and angularly spaced apart from each other. The borings 27 are adapted to receive a spring biased bolt 28 which in view of the spring 29 has a tendency to remain in its inserted position.

In order to change the position of the canopy, it is merely necessary to withdraw slightly the bolt 28, where upon the end portion 3 may be turned relative to the leg portion 3, whereupon also the disk 10 will turn relative to the disk 9, and the bolt 28 will ride on the face of the disk 9 until the next boring 27, or, if desired, any further boring is reached, whereupon securing of the bolt 28 the canopy is again maintained in the desired position.

While the embodiment shown in the drawing has the bolt 28 disposed in the disk10, it is quite apparent that the bolt 28 may be disposed in the disk 9, in which case the borings 27 are disposed in the disk 10.

While I have disclosed one embodiment of the present invention, it is to be understood that this embodiment is given by example only and not in a limiting sense, the scope of the present invention being determined by the objects and the claim.

I claim:

An adjusting device for a canopy of a beach or lounge chair having a back portion and said canopy having a frame, comprising a first plate member and a second plate member, said plate members being disposed parallel to each other and their faces engaging each other, said first plate member being secured to said back portion and said second plate member being secured to said frame, pivot means to permit turning said second plate member together with said frame relative to said first plate member and said back portion, respectively, and a spring biased bolt inserted in and projecting from the engaging face of one of said plate members and permanently attached 'and axially movable in said one of said plate members and the other of said plate members having a plurality of borings disposed in the path of said bolt during the turning of said second plate member, said borings being adapted to receive and to retain said bolt in the respective positions of said canopy, and said plate members comprising circular disks, and said pivot means 4 comprising a bolt extending through said back portion, through the central borings of said first and second plate member and through said frame, thereby retaining said disks in engaging position between said back portion and said frame.

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